Patients on dialysis are twice as likely to die from cancer than the general population

Patients using dialysis die from cancer at twice the rate as individuals of the same age and sex in the general population, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
“Cancer survival is improving in the general population because of improved screening and treatments, but it is unclear if people with kidney failure receiving dialysis, who are more likely to develop cancer, have also benefitted from these trends,” Brenda M. Rosales, MPH, PhD, a faculty of medicine and health in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney in Australia,